From the end of Jiajing to the era of great pirates

Xiong Tingbi participated in the whole court meeting. He was willing to help the emperor, but throughout the whole process, he was dazzled by the emperor's fighting power.

Don't look at the rumors outside that the emperor doesn't like going to court, but when he goes to court, the emperor's combat effectiveness is extraordinary. Regarding the issue of the country's foundation, the emperor's performance is slightly inferior, but other issues are not ambiguous at all.

Lao Xiong couldn't find a chance to interrupt even if he wanted to. Thinking about his sworn brother's evaluation of himself in history, he was also worried that if he really helped the fight, he would become a hindrance.

So, when the court meeting was over, the emperor left angrily. He was still in a daze in Fengtian Hall, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

No one among the ministers who were still unfinished was surprised. They thought that Old Xiong had just entered the court and had probably never seen a court meeting before, so he wanted to savor the taste of it.Ye Xianggao walked past him and greeted him: "Fei Bai, what's the matter? You're still savoring it. You often meet in the palace, so you should advise your majesty to go to court more often and communicate with the ministers."

"Why do you come to court? Do you want to teach him how to educate his son?" Xiong Tingbi rolled his eyes and sighed deeply: "The king is not very dark, and all the real ministers are the ministers of the country's subjugation!"

After that, he ignored Ye Xianggao and strode out of the palace.

He had long heard the saying that the Tian family had no family ties, but Wanli, the queen mother, was indeed too shameful. Her elbows were always turned outward, as if she was afraid that her son would not hate her. Anyway, she took it as her own responsibility to make her son unhappy, so she This national dispute arose.However, this group of ministers ignored many important national affairs and never forgot about this matter, as if they had become gilded after fighting once.

In the final analysis, the Tumu Fort Incident was caused by the Demon Queen, who caused various disturbances, and finally turned into a disaster of national subjugation, and then there was another incident of seizing the gate?Today's Queen Mother seems to have the same origin.

Before he could get far, he saw Zhang Cheng running into the hall. Old Xiong was a little curious, so he leaned over and listened.

"...Since Gu Xiancheng has resigned many times and has done nothing for the country, His Majesty has given permission for Gu Xiancheng and his younger brother Yuncheng to resign and return home."

Lao Xiong almost burst into laughter. He has done nothing for the country and such words are actually written in the imperial edict. This brother-in-law is really angry. This joke can make him laugh for a year.

It will be difficult for Mr. Gu to rely on his reputation to make a comeback in the future. Wanli will throw the imperial edict in the face of anyone who dares to mention him to see who dares to recommend him.

By the way, I have to go to the emperor and settle the naval matters first.This was originally the emperor's private matter, and the money was not in the hands of the ministers. The emperor could do it if he wanted to. If he didn't want to make it more formal, there would be no need to follow the formal process.Thinking of his sworn brother's proposal yesterday, Old Xiong thought about going to present the treasure quickly to let the emperor calm down.

Sure enough, Wanli was also waiting for him, and he was able to enter the palace again as soon as he asked to see him.

As soon as they met, Lao Xiong told the emperor the shareholding proposal that he had not finished talking about yesterday.Wanli pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Feibai, you wait and comfort your sister. At the very least, we don't need this ruined kingdom. I guarantee that Chang Wen's matter of being crowned king will be handled with flying colors. I am a member of the fleet." Give it to him too, it is better than being angry with those bird ministers in the Forbidden City."

"..." The old bear is a little numb, comforting the imperial concubine?Is this what I, a minister, can say?Your Majesty, you feel that being an emperor is uncomfortable and you are angry, but this is not necessarily the case for the noble concubine.However, considering his identity, he still had to accept this task.

Lao Xiong turned to see Concubine Zheng. When the latter heard that the emperor was in such a difficult situation, she just sighed softly: "That's all, Chang Xun's child is not blessed. You go back and tell the emperor that my mother and son are not covetous at all." , The Emperor does not need to feel guilty about this, everything is in accordance with the Emperor."

Lao Xiong, the mouthpiece, turned back to Wanli.To say that this dispute over the foundation of the country was brought about by Wanli, it was originally a simple matter. Because he caused the imperial concubine to have an abortion, he had to make the imperial concubine's son the prince. Who would have thought that there would be another mother dying in it? Mixed up, eventually was taken advantage of by the courtiers.

Now he is fed up with the bullshit national war and knows that it will be difficult to continue the fight.So I planned to give Zhu Changxun more land and money, so that he could leave the vassal in glory.Maybe, Zhu Changluo will have to borrow money from his younger brother in the future.

But how could he have imagined that his grandson would borrow money from the minister when he was poor in the future? He never expected that he would have a rich uncle. In the end, his uncle also became a model of dying with money. The two of them were stupid and stupid. Money has become a classic passed down to future generations.

Wanli gave up the fight for the country's foundation, which was regarded as its own victory by the anti-tax party that had gradually taken shape. For this reason, the Gu Xiancheng brothers who were dismissed from office naturally became the totems of the party. A few years later, the Gu brothers founded something in their hometown. During the Lin Party, people gathered for a while, and the largest party in the subjugation of the country was established, which gradually became a scene in the late Wanli years.

The difference is that Wanli has a family of relatives he can rely on and a good general comparable to Wei Huo. After the three major conquests successively defeated Japan and Burma, no foreign vassal dared to cause trouble. Only those in the Northeast Jianzhou Jurchen began to dance.

Since the Li family in Liaodong was weakened a lot in the war to aid Korea, and Li Rusong accidentally fell from his horse and died while chasing the invading Mongolian cavalry in the 26th year of Wanli, Nurhaci in Liaodong suddenly discovered that the dark clouds above his head were gone. , so he suddenly realized that he had the "Seven Great Hatreds" to be repaid, and flagrantly raised a flag of rebellion against the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the extermination of the Jurchens became the main topic in the court.However, since the Li family was still entrenched in Liaodong, the orders from the court could only urge the Li family to quickly eliminate this group of bandits.However, the strength of the Li family was greatly reduced, and without Li Rusong, who was a famous general, they were powerless to respond to the orders of the court, so they could only deal with the matter on the surface, and finally gave Nurhaci time to unify the various ministries in Jianzhou.

It's not that the imperial court didn't want to mobilize troops, but the civil servants were blocking Wanli from using Qi Jiguang again, so it became unfeasible to mobilize troops from Jizhen. Without Qi's army, there would be no troops around the capital to mobilize. Xuanda's border troops were able to move, but military pay was indispensable, so Wanli was more hesitant about this.

The various suggestions put forward by the civil servants were all kinds of. Some talked about transferring the troops from Yunnan, and some talked about transferring the Zhejiang army. All of them made Wanli very annoyed. When he asked Xiong Tingbi for advice, the latter simply named Qi Jiajun, thinking that he could do it without Marshal Qi. Lead this team and wipe out the bandits.

Wanli was hesitant about this because Lao Xiong was a civil servant and he did not want his brother-in-law to become a military general. He felt that admiral Xiong Tingbi and Qi Jiguang leading the army were the right path.In fact, Xiong Tingbi didn't want to, but after he was abandoned again after his second comeback, Qi Jiguang was already old and sick at home. It seemed that he might die at any time. Old Xiong couldn't bear to trouble the military god anymore.

So I thought that I could directly supervise the division. There are still many qualified generals in the Qi family army.It's just that he relied on the Navy for his previous meritorious service. Wanli always hesitated and delayed the trip until the death of the military god.

So, Lao Xiong thought for a long time and simply went back to Songjiang to ask his ancestor for instructions.